Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-09

" SAah FL Ii III tdUlSS ElS6T WOODS
a large fire ragged, which lighted
up the surrounding timber for miles.
Over all the moon shone through the
smoke lm~pregnated atmosphere, With a
dull golden color.
The visit of the United States grand
Jury to the asylum on Thursday night
was a very pleasant sffair for the pa
tlents at tho asylum. Upon the arrival of
the hour for going home, an expert was
called upon to designate who should re-
turn tc the city and who should remain
at the hospital.
@. B. Heath, of Sioux City. who was a
visitor in Yankton yesterday, is the gen.
tleman who constructed the Sioux City
motor street car line, and is also part
owner in the Powers seventy acres which
wax sold last week. Mr.. Heath spent
all of yesterday looking Yankton over,
and when he boarded the train last
nigh, his face was beamlng with good
humor and dust, and he expressed him
self delighted with Yankton.
Michael Brown, railroad contractor,
writes the editor of the Akron (Iowa)
Delta that sit is a settled fact that the
Illinois Central company is going to
build from LeMars to Yankton this sum
mer." This corresponds with something
Yankton has known for several weeks
and is further confirmed by the state
ments of the mayor of Akron and the
LeMars Sentinel. The Illinois Central
will build rapidly after it starts and will
reach our city ahead OF the Duluth &
Denver.
A department for instruction in stem
ograpby and type writing will be added
AT once TO the Dakota commercial col
lege course OF Instruction. To tins end
Mr.. A, norarter, u graduate Of the VAL
pariso, Indiana, normal school, has besn
employed as the teacher OF short hand
and type writing and he viii enter upon
his duties on Monday neSt. Mr..
Horarter comes to Yankton with oreden
tialsswhlcA establish his competency as
a teacher.
A prairie fire which ragged in east
Yankton and western Clay counties yes
terday destroyed considerable property.
Postmaster Langstad at Marindahl lost
q stable, considerable hay, and several
calves and sheep, while A. Olson, living
near Msrlrdahl, lost a blacksmith shop,
a eorn crib and farm machinery. Jerry
Iruyants, living east of D. O. Lawrence.
In Clay comfy, lost all his buildings,
and ). d. Siattery, of Wakonda, is q
heavy loser. The high wind which
ragged made fire fighting impossible.
1t Is reported that 6 number of
Lower Brule Sioux Indians have recent
iy been playing horse with Uncle Sam,
by putting his servants, the United
Statet marshal and others, to consider
able trouble in arresting q man for sell
ing whisky to Indians. The Indians, it
Is stated, filed information against an
innocent party 80 that they might visit
| Yankton and have their expenses paid.
| Slowly but surely the "poor Indian" is
catching on to the ways of his white
brother and ere long such q thing as an
upcivllized red man Will be hard to find.
Charlie Longs coat pocket was the
scene OF q small coDhagration this fore
noon, caused by a spark froma lighted
pipe which Mr.. Long placed in the
pocket when he stepped into Howard's
book store. Mr.. Long, when informed
that he was in danger of being cremsted,
grabbed the hot pocket with both hands
and exclaimed: "M,ns Got, where is
dose fire debartment," dropped the
pocket, made some other remarks, and
allowed o by .stander to extingu1sh the
flames. A half dozen men who stood
on the sidewalk at the time smelIed the
burning cloth and. Immediately there
| began o search for a fire somewhere else
in town.
Days like this are few and far between.
| That is, days exactly like this. There
are several in the course of q year which
have all the symptoms, but we doubt if
| Yankton has ever yet experienced a dust
| storm of the severity of the one which
has ragged this afternoon. The wind has
been blowing thirty. eight miles an hour
and an entire absence of moisture has
permitted the gale to pick up the dirt
and hold it in suspense twixt heaven
| and earth n barometer has fallen
| but fifteen handredths in t~wenty-tour
| hours and there are no rain indications.
The wind will cease blowing by to-mor-
row.
The Minneapolis Tribune has per-
petrated o write up" of Yankton which
at any other period of Its existence
would have filed the city with gloom.
At this bouyant period, however, we
are able to overcome the depressing ef-
feets of an ,nflotion of that nature and
rise above the conspiracies of our
enemies, AS it were. The article is en-
tersperseG 9th outs, in which our
worthy retising mayor is made over
from q last years photograph of Gam
brinus with the chin whiskers removed
and our booming city clerk is given al
the sweet attributes of an etfervescent
dude. There is also a picture Of some
thing named Yankton, but it looks more
like a prairie dog town. 1t is said that
this production was paid for by oul